Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.