The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.