Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The only shame is to have none.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.