To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.
May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.
It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!