“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
