The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?