To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.