All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.