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

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.