The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.