Faith is a gift of God.
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.