It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.