The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ..

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides..

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue..

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life..

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions..

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens..

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present..

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune..

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind..

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand..

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or vision….

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad..

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity..

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination..

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear..

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter..

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand..

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return..

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious..