To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.