Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.