If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.