We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.

Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.