When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.