How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.