Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.