All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

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

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.