One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.