Not to be mad is another form of madness

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

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.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.