Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?