Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

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.

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

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason