The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.