To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.