Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.