There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.

Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the amount of love, but simply its existence in the mind and heart where it resides. And it truly appears that love is to the soul of the lover as the soul itself is to the body which it animates.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.