"When the time came for Pompadour herself to die, she confessed, was given her viaticum, and was from that time forth …"

"The King had every privilege except that of being at ease. Pompadour provided the atmosphere in which that final luxu…"

"Nach uns die Sintflut!"

"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…"

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

"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."

"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…"

"Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions…"

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

"Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls."