Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

He that is jealous is not in love.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.