It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single e….

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness..

The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his powe….

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence..

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..

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything..

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 pun….

Youth is life's beautiful moment..

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and….

Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here bel….

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend..

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality..

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world..

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever….

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates in….

Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mou….

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected t….

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a ….

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck..

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 whic….

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church a….