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.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

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

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.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

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