There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Vanity is but the surface.