I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.