"What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief."

"Strength alone knows conflict. Weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished."

"The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it."

"The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it."

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others"

"Youth should be a savings-bank."

"(About the Assumption of Mary) She who was conceived without spot and borne without pain, who became mother without l…"

"Of all the things to seek, the first is wisdom, in which lies the form of perfect goodness."

"Wisdom enlightens human beings so that they may recognise themselves."

"Tell me, I beg you, what – among all things – has become the one thing for you, the thing you want to embrace in a un…"