Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.