There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

No animal admires another animal.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.