Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

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.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.