If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!