How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.