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

"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it."

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would be to be a madman of another kind of madness."