Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Poetry is devil's wine.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.