“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.