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

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.