It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.