When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.