One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.