The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.