Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

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

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.