It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

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.