"We make idols of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am disgusted with it."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"What is the 'I'? A man at a window sees the passers-by; if I pass by, can I say that he saw me? No; for he did not think of me in particular. But if he loves someone, and I am that someone, then he lo…"