To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.