Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

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

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

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

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.