For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.