The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.