There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.