Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

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

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.