There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

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

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.