God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.