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.

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

Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

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