Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.