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.

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

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves