Men blaspheme what they do not know.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.