There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.