Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

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.

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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.