If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
Man is neither angel nor beast.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.