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.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

I have loved him too much not to hate

He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.