A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?