We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.