We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.