1. “All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”
2. “Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger. “
3. “A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
4. “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
5. "By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
6. "Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
7. "Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
8. "Don't you believe that there is in man a deep that is so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"
9. "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
10. “Evil law is no law at all.”
11. "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
12. "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
13. "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
14. "Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."
15. "He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
16. “He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.”’
17. ”If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?”
18. "If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."
19. “If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”
20. "I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!"
21. ”Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
22. ”In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
23. "I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
24. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
25. "Love, and do what you like."
26. “Love and do what thou wilt.”
27. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
28. “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
29. "My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
30. "O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams."
31. “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
32. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
33. "People travel to wonderat the height of the mountains,at the huge waves of the sea,at the long courses of rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and they pass themselves bywithout wondering."
34. "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
35. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
36. "The single desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and to be loved."
37. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
38. “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
39. "Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
40. “Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.”
41. “To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
42. “To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.”
43. “What can be hoped for which is not believed?”
44. "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
45. "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
46. ”What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. “
47. "Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness."
48. "Why does truth engender hatred?"
