When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.