We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.