It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.