There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.