Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.