... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

Scared?" "You haven't lived until you go grave robbing.

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumptionand watch the world play its partrelative to to its fulfillment.

A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Be dignified, honest and truthful.