I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.