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

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.