Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Singing is a lover's thing.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

My weight is my love.