We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.