La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.