The good is slow because it goes uphill. The evil is fast because it goes downhill.
When unbridled love enters the heart, it gnaws away at all other feelings; it lives at the expense of honor, faith, and the given word.
Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.
We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.
Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.