A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

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.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

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.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.