Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.