In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

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.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.