The property of power is to protect.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.