It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

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.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

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

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.