All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.