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

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace..

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person..

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

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide..

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber..

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener q….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die..

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told ….

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without th….

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

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, thi….

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

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution..

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the unive….

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by g….