It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.