No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

Faith is a gift of God.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.