Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.