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.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.