Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

The property of power is to protect.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.