The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.