Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.