The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.