Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.