How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.