If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.