The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.