It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.