“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.”

“God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith. ”

“And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.”