No animal admires another animal.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

We like to be deceived.