Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.