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| Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. | | Habit | |
| Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. | | Habit | |
| Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. | | Uncategorized | |
| Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. | | Happiness | |
| He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright | | Truth | |
| How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man? | | Men | |
| How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man! | | Uncategorized | |
| How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. | | Painting | |
| However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion | | Passion | |
| Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God. | | God; Philosophy | |
| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. | | Evil | |
| I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter | | Uncategorized | |
| I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. | | Uncategorized | |
| I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing | | Uncategorized | |
| If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world | | Uncategorized | |
