Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.