There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.