To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.