The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

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