To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!