For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.