... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.