Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.