True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

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.