Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.