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.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.