Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.