Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.