The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.