We like to be deceived.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

I know whom I have believed.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.