The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.