On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.