That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

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

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.