Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.