"Nothing that impressed Africa was foreign to him. Without needing to go and look there, he knew the dark continent, a…"

"The prevailing opinion at court was that the founding of a colony was beyond the strength of the Sovereign of a small…"

"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; …"