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

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

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

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

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

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

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him.