I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

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

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.