True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.