If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.