Jerome

“Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.”

“Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.”

“Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”

“The tired ox treads with a firmer step.”

“Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.”

“It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.”

“The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.”

“Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”

“A dreadful rumor reached us from the West. We heard that Rome was besieged, that the citizens were buying their safety with gold, and that when they had been thus despoiled they were again beleaguered, so as to lose not only their substance but their lives. ...The speaker's voice failed and sobs interrupted his utterance. The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken; nay, it fell by famine before it fell by the sword, and there were but few to be found to be made prisoner.”

“They fill their houses through the plunder and losses of others, so that the saying of the philosophers may be fulfilled, 'Every rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.' (Omnis dives aut iniquis aut iniqui haeres.)”

“Dicæarchus in his book of Antiquities, describing Greece, relates that under Saturn, that is in the Golden Age, when the ground brought forth all things abundantly, no one ate flesh, but every one lived on field produce and fruits which the earth bore of itself.”