Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.