All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

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

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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

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.