Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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