Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

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.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.