Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Imagination decides everything.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
