Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

I know whom I have believed.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

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.