It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.