"Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has contradicted justice, and has declared that it is she herself who i…"

"The knowledge of man's misery without God is the knowledge of two things: his misery and his greatness."

"Custom is a second nature, which destroys the first."

"Little things console us because little things afflict us."

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."