"Man is the crowning of history and the realization of poetry, the free and living bond which unites all nature to tha…"

"The strongest argument for the truth of Christianity is the true Christian, the man filled with the Spirit of Christ.…"

"What Christianity in her antagonism with every form of unbelief most needs is holy living."

"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…"

"For my part, I remained a close prisoner, without a visit from a single person, none of my most intimate friends dari…"

"Besides, I had found a secret pleasure, during my confinement, from the perusal of good books, to which I had given m…"

"Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui."