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

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.