We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

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

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Admiration spoils all from infancy.