162 Quotes by St. Jerome

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.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.