What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.