Someone who was tired of people gossiping said that he wished the smallest village were like the capital.

—He didn’t know, poor man, that it is the same there.

—For the love of God and your neighbour, don’t fall into such a small-town defect… It is so un-Christian. —It was said of the first followers of Christ: “See how they love one another.” Can this be said of you, and of me, at all times?