All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.