Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

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

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.