Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

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.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.