Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

Between urine and filth we are born.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."