Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

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

What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.