In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.