If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.