A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.