Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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.