We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.