God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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

Emotion is always new.