Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

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

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.