We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.