It may be that he threw the rose into Sirona's window only in sport, for she plays with his brothers and sisters as if she herself were one of them.

I will question him; for if it is so, it would be neither just nor prudent to blame him.

Some caution is needed even in giving a warning; for many a one, who would never have thought of stealing, has become a thief through false suspicion.

A young heart that is beginning to love, is like a wild boy who always would rather take the road he is warned to avoid, and when I was a girl, I myself first discovered how much I liked you, when the Senator Aman's wife--who wanted you for her own daughter--advised me to be on my guard with you.

A man who has made such good use of his time, among all the temptations of the Greek Sodom, as Polykarp, and who has won such high praise from all his teachers and masters, cannot have been much injured by the light manners of the Alexandrians.