The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.