Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Discipline is an index to doctrine.