We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.