"I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing around me made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I bega…"

"The earthly [city] has made for herself, according to her heart's desire, false gods out of any sources at all, even out of human beings, that she might adore them with sacrifices. The heavenly one, o…"

"The human nature, which first existed, is praised by these men as being so far less tainted with evil manners?"

"The woman herself alone is not the image of God; whereas the man alone is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman is joined with him."

"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."