The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

By and by never comes.

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.