A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.