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

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

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

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.