Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.