Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?