Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

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

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.