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

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.