Faith is a gift of God.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.