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

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

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