There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.