Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.