If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.