The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.