Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

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.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.