The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

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

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.