It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend the world.
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.