It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

Patient endurance attends to all things.