I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.