He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

The world's verdict is conclusive.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.