It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny.... Not being able to make what is just strong, we make what was strong just.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to he full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints. They all seek their satisfaction, and differ only in the object in which they place it; they call those their enemies who hinder them.