Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.