“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight.”

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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

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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.