By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

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

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.