Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.