I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.