There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself