The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.