Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.