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

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

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.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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