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

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.