Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

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.

True love can fear no one.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.