By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

He that is jealous is not in love.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.