Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.