There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.