» Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
» God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
» Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
» I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
» If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
» It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
» I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
» Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
» My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
» O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.