It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

Beware of bad Catholics.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.