No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!