For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Understanding is the reward of faith.