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

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.