The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.