Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.