Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.