On Love:
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
On Happiness:
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
On Courage:
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
On God:
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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.