I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Love follows knowledge.

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.

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.