Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.