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

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.