One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

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

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

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

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.