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

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

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

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

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

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