If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

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.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.