Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.