The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

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.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

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