Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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

To sing is to pray twice.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.