Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.