For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.