How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.