Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.