I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

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

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

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