“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.