All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.