You always admire what you really don't understand.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to
add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
