The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.