True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.