If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.