Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

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

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

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

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.