To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

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

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.