Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.