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

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.

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