For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Of two evils choose the least.