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

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it