The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.