Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.