It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.