Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.