If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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

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

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.