The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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

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