Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.