We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Faith is a gift of God.

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.