The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.