Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.