An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.