Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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.

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

By thought I embrace the universe.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.