"L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits."

"Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un."

"Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions."

"Ah! comme vous dites, il faut glisser sur bien des pensées, et ne faire pas semblant de les voir."

"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."