How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.