We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.