Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Labor: a powerful medicine.

Fasting is a medicine.

Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.

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.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.