To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

A library implies an act of faith.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.