When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.