Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.