God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.