Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.