The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.