All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.