If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

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

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.