There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Imagination decides everything.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

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.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.