The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

The beginning is half of the whole.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.