Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.