Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.