Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?