It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.