Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.