We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.