"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.