I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing… - Michel de Montaigne

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

A true prayer and religious reconciling of ourselves to Almighty God cannot enter into an impure soul, subject at the very time to the dominion of Satan. He who calls God to his assistance whilst in a course of vice, does as if a cut-purse should call a magistrate to help him, or like those who introduce the name of God to the attestation of a lie.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es