Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.Collection: Love
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.Collection: Believe
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.Collection: Queens
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.Collection: Fear
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.Collection: Love
To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.Collection: Self
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.Collection: Eye
An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.Collection: Beauty
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.Collection: Ignorance
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.Collection: World
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.Collection: Weakness
I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.Collection: Love
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.Collection: Men
The world itself makes us sick of the world.Collection: Work
Every error is truth abused.Collection: Errors
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - JacquesCollection: Life
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.Collection: Life
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.Collection: Death