Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.