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

"We are never at home, but always beyond."

"Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast."

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

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the world's supreme blessings."