The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.