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.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.