In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.