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.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

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

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

How like an angel came I down!

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

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