Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.