Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.