You always admire what you really don't understand.

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.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.