Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.