Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

My genius is in my nostrils.