God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

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.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.