All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.