Those who never have time do least

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.