The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.