We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

If you understand, it is not God.