A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

By doing good we become good.

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

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

The passions are the voice of the body.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.