Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
Faith is a gift of God.
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.