You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

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

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.