Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.