No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.