It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

If you understand, it is not God.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.