Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
History should be written as philosophy.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
Better is the enemy of good.
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Men argue. Nature acts.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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