The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.