There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.