By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."