Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.