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.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.