There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
From Blaise Pascal
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?
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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