Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.