All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.