The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.