All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.