Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.