We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.