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

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?