You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.