If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.