Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.