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

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

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

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.