We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

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.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.