Thank God I Am Deemed Worthy To

The Line, Often Adopted By Strong Men In Controversy, Of Justifying The Means By The End.

That Rain Is The Best Which Falls Steadily On The Earth. A Sudden And Excessive Downpour Ruins The Fields.

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.

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.

For All Riches Come From Iniquity, And Unless One Were To Lose Another Could Not Gain. Hence The Common Adage Seems To Me To Be Very True: The Rich Man Is Unjust Or The Heir Of An Unjust One.