God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
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.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.