Only He who made man makes man happy.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.