Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.