A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

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.