 Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. |
| The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. |
| People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. |
| Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. |
| It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. |
| Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. |
| The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. |
| Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. |
| Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. |
| It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. |
| Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. |
| 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. |
| Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. |
| Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. |
| Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. |
| 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. |
| Men blaspheme what they do not know. |
| Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. |
| Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. |
| Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. |
