Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

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

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.