Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.