Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.