A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.