Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

To sing is to pray twice.

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.