Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.