It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.