It is a sin to judge any man by his post

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.