Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.