All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.