You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.