If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
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!
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
No animal admires another animal.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend the world.
Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.