All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'