...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.