O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
By-and-by never comes.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be...
It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.