Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.