Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

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

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

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

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

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.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need