One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Those who do not weep, do not see.