A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.