Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.