It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.