Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.