We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship..

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

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything..

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of ….

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden..

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able..

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, mak….

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must….

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves..

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves..

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….

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the t….

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone..

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant..

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal..

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other..

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough poss….

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak..

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience..

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them..

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason..