The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.