Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.