It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.