How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

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.

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.