If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

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

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.