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

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

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

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

“The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural....Out of all bodies together we could not succeed in creating one little thought. It is impossible, and of a different order. Out of all bodies and minds we could not extract one impulse of true charity. It is impossible, and of a different, supernatural, order.”

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

“Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.”