“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

“Too much clarity darkens.”

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”