Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.