Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.