Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it