Letter 3016: The person who brings you this letter is known to me in the way that one knows people whose family one has done...

...is there really anything in my words that can soothe your ears or serve as medicine for your mind?

This Epistle was written when Symmachus sent his memorial to Valentinian II. St. Ambrose presses on the Emperor the consideration that it is his business to defend religion, and not superstition.

I am delighted to receive your letters -- not only because a letter from a friend is the sweetest thing, but because...

I can hardly bear the departure of friends, but when they head off to be in your company, I feel as though they were...

The Lord, Who reveals hidden things, and makes manifest the counsels of men's hearts, has given even to the lowly knowledge of devices apparently hard to be understood. Nothing has escaped my notice, nor has any single action been unknown. Nevertheless I neither see nor hear anything but the peace of God and all that pertains to it.