Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.