It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.