If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.