If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Vanity is but the surface.

The only shame is to have none.