To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.