Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.