To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

Let brother help brother.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.