Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!