The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.