All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

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

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.