"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

"We are all born with a thirst for happiness, but we are all born with a thirst for something we cannot find on earth."

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."

"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"The last act is bloody, however fine all the rest of the play, — at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end forever."