If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing

There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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