Hymnwriters

Augustus Toplady is the poet of Christian assurance.
Isaac Watts is the poet of God's sovereignty.
Charles Wesley is the poet of the new creation.

—J.I. Packer, Knowing God.

Pensées

He who does not see the vanity of the world is himself very vain. Indeed who do not see it but youths who are absorbed in fame, diversion, and the thought of the future? But take away diversion, and you will see them dried up with weariness. They feel then their nothingness without knowing it; for it is indeed to be unhappy to be in insufferable sadness as soon as we are reduced to thinking of self, and have no diversion.

—Blaise Pascal, Pensées.

The Role of Government

It is proper for the law, when rightly laid down, to be sovereign, while the ruler or rulers in office should have supreme powers over matters as to which the laws are quite unable to pronounce with precision because of the difficulty of making a general rule to cover all cases.

—Aristotle, Politics Book 3  §1282b.