"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."

"At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; …"

"Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates…"

"The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into vic…"