Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.