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.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.