All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.