One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.