All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.