An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

I know whom I have believed.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.