Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.