Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give….

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size..

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is..

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable….

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell t….

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know ….

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness..

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do….

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority an….

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary..

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them..

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed..

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that canno….

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ..

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But dive….

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lo….

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religi….

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through….

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels ….

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may ge….

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted..