There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.