When We See A Natural Style, We Are Astonished And Charmed; For We Expected To See An Author, And We Find A Person.
There Are Only Two Kinds Of Men: The Righteous Who Think They Are Sinners And The Sinners Who Think They Are Righteous.
If We Examine Our Thoughts, We Shall Find Them Always Occupied With The Past And The Future.
Few Friendships Would Survive If Each One Knew What His Friend Says Of Him Behind His Back.
The Strength Of A Man's Virtue Should Not Be Measured By His Special Exertions, But By His Habitual Acts.
You Always Admire What You Really Don't Understand.
The Struggle Alone Pleases Us, Not The Victory.
Small Minds Are Concerned With The Extraordinary, Great Minds With The Ordinary.
All Of Our Reasoning Ends In Surrender To Feeling.
The Knowledge Of God Is Very Far From The Love Of Him.
Imagination Decides Everything.
Little Things Console Us Because Little Things Afflict Us.
Man Is But A Reed, The Most Feeble Thing In Nature, But He Is A Thinking Reed.
All Human Evil Comes From A Single Cause, Man's Inability To Sit Still In A Room.
Happiness Is Neither Without Us Nor Within Us. It Is In God, Both Without Us And Within Us.
That We Must Love One God Only Is A Thing So Evident That It Does Not Require Miracles To Prove It.
I Have Made This Letter Longer Than Usual, Only Because I Have Not Had The Time To Make It Shorter.
Noble Deeds That Are Concealed Are Most Esteemed.
Justice And Power Must Be Brought Together, So That Whatever Is Just May Be Powerful, And Whatever Is Powerful May Be Just.
If Our Condition Were Truly Happy, We Would Not Seek Diversion From It In Order To Make Ourselves Happy.
Faith Indeed Tells What The Senses Do Not Tell, But Not The Contrary Of What They See. It Is Above Them And Not Contrary To Them.
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 That Warmth.
It Is Good To Be Tired And Wearied By The Futile Search After The True Good, That We May Stretch Out Our Arms To The Redeemer.
Through Space The Universe Encompasses And Swallows Me Up Like An Atom; Through Thought I Comprehend The World.
The Greatness Of Man Is Great In That He Knows Himself To Be Wretched. A Tree Does Not Know Itself To Be Wretched.
The Greater Intellect One Has, The More Originality One Finds In Men. Ordinary Persons Find No Difference Between Men.
We Run Carelessly To The Precipice, After We Have Put Something Before Us To Prevent Us Seeing It.
It Is Incomprehensible That God Should Exist, And It Is Incomprehensible That He Should Not Exist.