Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.