A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

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

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

We only understand that which already is within us.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.