God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.