Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

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

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

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