No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
We come to God by love and not by navigation.
It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.