To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about 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.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?