The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing – if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.