Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.