Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

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

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

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.