No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

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

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

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

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.