Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.