Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force..

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart..

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his su….

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us..

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim..

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one wo….

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm….

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits..

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles..

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough..

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without ho….

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them..

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen jus….

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. T….

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical..

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not..

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first..

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that ….

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet….