A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.