We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.