Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.