Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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.
The property of power is to protect.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
Faith is a gift of God.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.