Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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.