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.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.