Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.