There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.
Jean Baptiste MassillonSlander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.
Jean Baptiste MassillonNothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
Jean Baptiste Massillon