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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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…

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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…

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire