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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

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.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.