The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.