I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

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.