All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.