He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

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.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

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.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.