Fasting is a medicine.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.