Why Do You Not Practise What You

No One Loves To Tell Of Scandal Except To Him Who Loves To Hear It. Learn, Then, To Rebuke And Check The Detracting Tongue By Showing That You Do Not Listen To It With Pleasure.

It Is Worse Still To Be Ignorant Of Your Ignorance.

Wine Is The First Weapon That Devils Use In Attacking The Young

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.

Small Minds Cannot Grasp Great Subjects.