In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.