The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Imagination decides everything.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.