When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discov….

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.].

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity..

No animal admires another animal..

Opinion is the queen of the world..

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts..

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is fool….

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true..

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it..

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that canno….

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a mat….

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion..

Continuous eloquence wearies..

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presen….

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is..

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought..

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he….

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image..

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For….

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the i….

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in wh….