Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.

There is no time of life past learning something.

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.