The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

The most essential point is lowliness.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.