You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.