And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

The playthings of our elders are called business.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.