The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

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