The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?