There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?