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

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.