The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.