Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.