Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.