Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 12, 1802 Death: November 21, 1861
Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened..
For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel..
The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man..
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and t….
Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else..
There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice..
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that..
The great men of antiquity were poor..
You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God ….
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes ar….
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 ha….
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters..
There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, wit….
Nothing is achieved without solitude..