God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.