Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.