Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.