The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.