Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

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

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.