“ In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ”

“ Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ”

“ He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. ”

“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ”

“ There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. ”

“ Imagination decides everything. ”

“ Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ”

“ Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ”

“ Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. ”

“ The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. ”