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

...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.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.