It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

To understand is to forgive.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.