It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.