The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

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.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

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

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.