Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.