We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.