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Excerpt from Some Letters of Saint Bernard: Abbot of Clairvaux From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales, Vicar of Stalisfield
This selection of S. Bernard's letters has been made in the hope that it may find its way into the hands of many to whom the volumes of the greater collection are unknown, or are for one reason or another in accessible. The letters of great and good men give us information about them Which can be derived from no other source. As the eyes are to the other bodily senses, says the editor of S. Augustine's correspondence, so are the letters of illustrious men in numberless ways more wonderful than all their other works. In them, as in the mirror of the human eyes, appear the personal qualities, passions, virtues, and vices of the individual. Just as no one can better show himself to the life than in his letters, so nowhere can he be better known than in them. This is true of the letters of every saint, as well as of every man of affairs and the peculiar value and charm of such collections of letters is almost universally acknowledged.
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