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

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

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.