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

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.