The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the sto….

They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and rev….

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven..

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereo….

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth ….

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire,….