Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'