Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.