The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. Let us wager the gain and the loss is wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. The sole cause of man's unhappiness is the he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others. When the passions become masters, they are vices.