“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Faith is a gift of God.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.