All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.