"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

"We are generally more persuaded by the reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have been discovered by others."

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

"Men despise religion; they hate it, and fear to be in it."

"We are born into the world with a love for ourselves, and a hate for those who would oppose us."