He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright..

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction..

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles..

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosoph….

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they ad….

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, a….

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, an….

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a fi….

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into obli….

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us..

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists..

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve o….

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us t….

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra..

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..

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself..

Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzl….

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of kno….

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone..