Jerome
Full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
If an offence come out of the truth, better it is that the offence come than the truth be concealed.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.