Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.