The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.