Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

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?

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.