What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.