Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.