We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.