Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

Give, expecting nothing there of.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.