Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

By thought I embrace the universe.