Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

Beware of the person of one book.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.