When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.