They wanted, it is true, no talent or accomplishment into which men can be drilled by elaborate discipline; but such discipline, though it may bring out the powers of ordinary minds, has a tendency to suffocate, rather than to develop, original genius.

It was universally acknowledged that, in the literary contest, the Jansenists were completely victorious.

To the Jesuits nothing was left but to oppress the sect which they could not confute.
Lewis the Fourteenth was now their chief support.

His conscience had, from boyhood, been in their keeping; and he had learned from them to abhor Jansenism quite as much as he abhorred Protestantism, and very much more than he abhorred Atheism.

Innocent the Eleventh, on the other hand, leaned to the Jansenist opinions.