Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.