The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

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!