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

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

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.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

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

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.