The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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.