He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.