It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.