There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.