We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.