Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.