Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.