The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

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.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.