He shared their games and their bed without allowing any suspicion to arise that he was not a young virgin like them.

Chiron, who taught him such good morals, is, with the Emperor Trajan, the only righteous man who obtained celestial glory by following the law of nature.

And yet he was but half human.
"I think I have proved by this example that, to reach eternal blessedness, it is enough to possess some parts of humanity, always on the condition that they are noble.

And what Chiron, the Centaur, could obtain without having been regenerated by baptism, would not the penguins deserve too, if they became half penguins and half men?
That is why, Lord, I entreat you to give old Mael's penguins a human head and breast so that they can praise you worthily.

And grant them also an immortal soul--but one of small size." Thus Catherine spoke, and the fathers, doctors, confessors, and pontiffs heard her with a murmur of approbation.
But St.Anthony, the Hermit, arose and stretching two red and knotty arms towards the Most High: "Do not so, O Lord God," he cried, "in the name of your holy Paraclete, do not so!" He spoke with such vehemence that his long white beard shook on his chin like the empty nose-bag of a hungry horse.
"Lord, do not so.