Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.