We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

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