Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.