The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.