Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any