"Translated: O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!"

"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."

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

"Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity."