Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.