Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

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

Every city is a living body.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.