Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.