"If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have nothing in it mysterious or supernatural."

"To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils."

"The knowledge of man's misery without God is the knowledge of two things: his misery and his greatness."

"Reason's last step is to recognize that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it."

"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable."