We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner. - Giacomo Casanova

I believe in the existence of an immaterial God, the Author and Master of all beings and all things, and I feel that I never had any doubt of His existence, from the fact that I have always relied upon His providence, prayed to Him in my distress, and that He has always granted my prayers. Despair brings death, but prayer does away with despair; and when a man has prayed he feels himself supported by new confidence and endowed with power to act. As to the means employed by the Sovereign Master of human beings to avert impending dangers from those who beseech His assistance, I confess that the knowledge of them is above the intelligence of man, who can but wonder and adore.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.]