Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.