"He has tried natural religion, and has found this frail bark unfit to carry humanity. Seeing it sinking under him, he…"

"There is, in Pascal's book — his drama, as we have ventured to call it — a person, real or fictitious, a protagonist;…"

"Among the English, we see on one side an exhibition of grossness and impudence in wickedness, and on the other, we ad…"

"We feel the necessity of deceiving ourselves, of even grossly deceiving ourselves, and of believing, when we are doin…"

"The most doubtful reasoning appears to us clear and conclusive, when we can, in any way, twist it to an accordance wi…"

"A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the s…"

"Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun co…"

"The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to …"

"Meditation leads from ignorance to ignorance, from ignorance which does not know itself to ignorance which does know …"

"Man feels in himself passions which ought to obey, and a reason which ought to command. But it is in vain: the war is…"