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.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.