Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Whatever you do, crush the infamy.
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
The more you know, the less sure you are.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.
A small number of choice books are sufficient.