Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.