It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

By thought I embrace the universe.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!