When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.