Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

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