Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.