We like to be deceived.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.