Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
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