I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.