Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.