All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.