The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.