We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.