The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.