Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.