Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

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

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.