I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.