The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.