“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

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.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.