What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.