What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

What is true belongs to me!

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.