I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.