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.

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.