How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.