Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.