God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations..

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them..

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves..

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer..

Liberty is life; slavery is death..

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow..