Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Life alone can rekindle life.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.