The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.