"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."
"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."