Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.