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.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

Speak, move, act in peace.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.