There is a transcendent power in example.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

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.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

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

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.