“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

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

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

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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