The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

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

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

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.

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.